The Mediterranean House of Fashion Trades

Since its inception in 1988, the Maison Méditerranéenne des Métiers de la Mode (MMMM) fashion college has continued to make its mark on the Marseille textile industry. Its president Matthieu Gamet shares his ambitions to raise Marseille to the status of a fashion capital.

Talent incubator, educational support and Marseille fashion showcase, MMMM combines a number of facets in order to "identify and assist future stars" of the fashion world. "What we seek is a symbiosis with Paris. Where luxury is characteristic of the capital, Marseille is more an adept of urban fashion," says its president Matthieu Gamet.

So, while the 2015 edition of the Mediterranean Fashion Prize, dedicated to the promotion of young designers, was launched in March, the spokesman of this non-profit association is already pondering new possibilities. Among them, the creation of a biennial fashion festival conceived as an important springboard for aspiring designers in the region.

Workshops, conferences, exhibitions, catwalk shows etc. could well emerge in 2016, for a two-month program of events in emblematic places around the city. The fulfillment of an ongoing objective that the MMMM and its president pursue once more, "to impose Marseille as the capital of creation in the minds of all."

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If Paris figures prominently among the fashion capitals, where tomorrow's trends are on display during Fashion Week, it cannot however claim a complete monopoly over French creation! Let’s focus on those fashion must-haves that have emerged under the Mediterranean sun.

Between modern freshness and sweet simplicity, the Franco-Scandinavian label Le Stockholmsyndrome is the result of the successful conjunction of its multiple influences, just like its pretty designers Louise and Rosina.

Originally from Paris, and today resident of Marseille, fashion designer Christina Sfez has been creating, since 2011, sublime wedding dresses with a bohemian spirit. Designs that she carefully makes in her workshop on the Cours Julien, to the delight of future wives with a retro style.